Yes, ruling out hardware issues would be welcome. Also, the fact that it fails with both xsane and simple-scan, makes it likely that this is an issue with the driver and you should get in contact with the hplip team at https://launchpad.net/hplip or the sane-devel list at http://www.sane-project.org/mailing-lists.html
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